It's all about incentive and instant feedback providing to content creators, where steemit is in better position than quora. I am a quora user from 2 years and written answers but over time you got bored because at the end of the day your time was wasted like on other social media platforms like Facebook,twitter etc, yea you got more knowledge but no material benefit. Many people always think that if they are best at something then why they work for free and write for other people's benefit. Many people can do that (can write free of cost to share their experience) but in case of analytical questions they have to arrange their thought process in systematic order and read content on the topic from other sources as well to write better answer. In case of steemit if are reading content and analysing it then that is also benefiting your profile and no time got wasted. Your earnings are instantly visible to you which will encourage you to read and write more .
I hope on steemit good content will be rewarded not the fancy and made stories.
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